[2] Born in Swansea in 1956, Gary Ley studied geography at university.
[1] His first novel, Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, was published in 1998, and is notable for having been a runner-up in Seren’s First Novel Competition.
[3] It deals with the subject of child abuse, employing flashbacks and having a narrative that moves between Texas and Wales.
It is set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the internal conflict in Peru; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the Shining Path.
The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder, Henry Meiggs, features prominently in the novel.